Azizi Johari Bio
Azizi Johari is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on August 24, 1948, in New York City, New York. Playboy named her its June 1975 Playmate at 26. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Johari has natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 36-23-37.
The name Azizi Johari translates as “precious jewel” in Swahili — an apt sobriquet for a pictorial that was photographed by Ken Marcus and, in its moment, made her the fourth African-American Playmate of the Month. That credit put her image into broad circulation, but it was only one facet of a public life that threaded stagecraft, music and film through the 1970s cultural currents.
Well before and after the centerfold, Johari worked in theater and music. She performed with the Black Arts West company and recorded with a vocal group called The Marvelles, who released a single; later she toured with Sammy Davis Jr. and became a familiar presence in African-American outlets such as Jet and Players, where her visibility reached readers who valued both glamour and community representation.
Screen work followed naturally from that cross-genre visibility. Her portfolio includes roles in films like The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Body and Soul, and a guest turn on television’s The Six Million Dollar Man, credits that placed her in both independent and mainstream entertainment circles. In 1976 she was also featured on the cover of Leon Ware’s album Musical Massage, an image that linked her to the era’s softer, more soulful visual aesthetic.
Johari’s story is one of steady, plural visibility rather than a single, defining headline. Between theater rehearsals, music sessions and on‑set days, she moved through the overlapping worlds of Black performance, popular magazines and record art — a small but telling example of how 1970s culture circulated faces as readily as it circulated songs and stories.
